Detachable bow-support for shoes.



LE ROY F. mmEs.

.DETACHABLE BOW SUPPORT FOR SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.5. ma.

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Patented July 23, 1918.

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JDlETACHABLE BUW-S'UPPURT IEUJlt SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent. p tg t gr y y ga g g Application filed January 5, 1918. aerial No. Etlfltfit t.

To all wkom it may concern:

Be it known that Le Ror Rdonns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waiakoa, in the county of Kula, Maui, and Territory of Hawaii, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable Bowfiupports for Shoes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has for its object the provision of very simple means for detachably supporting a bow' upon aslipper or low shoe, the device being soconstructed as to permit the ready detachinent or application of the how, when desired.

Tn cleaning white shoes or polishing shoes of other colors, the ribbon of which the bow is made becomes very often soiled, unless extreme care be taken to protect the ribbon and the object of my device is to do away with the necessity of this care by providing means whereby the bow maybe readily detached from the shoe while'the shoe is being cleaned or polished, the device also permitting the ready application or removal of bows of various styles or colors to shoes.

With these andother objects in view, my invention consists of the several features as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a slipper provided with my improved bow attaching" device; Fig. 2 is a sectional view through a shoe and through the attaching plate 10, the bow being shown in elevation-and'theparts being separated; v

Fig. 3 is a like view to Fig. 2, but showing the parts engaged with each other, the how not being shown.

Fig. 4: is a face view of the plate '10; and lFig. 5 is a sectional view showing the stud 14c and its attachment.

Referring to these drawings, it will be seen that my invention includes an attaching plate or frame designated 10, which is prefltd erably made of a piece of thin sheet metal of any suitable character formed with perforations 11 at the corners whereby a bow of ribbon may be attached to the plate and also formed, with a pair of hey-hole slots 12 disposed in reverse relation to each other, that is, with the enlarged portions of "the slots toward each other. it how 13 maybe attached to the plate 10 by stitching through the eyes or perforations 11. The shoe is provided at the point where the bow is to be attached with outwardly projecting studs 14, these studs having heads and preferably being formed with prongs 15, whereby the studs may be attached to the leather of the shoe. These studs are disposed a distance from each other equal to the distance of the narrowed portions of the key-hole slots 12 and when it is desired to dispose the bow and the supporting plate 10 upon the shoe, the leather of the shoe is bent upon itself or contracted so as to insert these studs into the enlarged portions of the key-hole slots and when the hand is taken away, the naturalresilience of the leather will cause it to flatten and the studs will be disposed in the narrowed portions of the slots, thus holding the bow support 10 securely to the leather of the shoe. The reverse operation will, of course, permit the removal of the plate or support 10. I

lit will be obvious that, this support 10 may be made of any desired material-and that it may be very cheaply made and that bows of various ornamental character may be applied to the plate. Furthermore, it will be obvious that the headed studs 14 may be applied to the leather of any character of applied after the shoe is made. These studs,

as illustrated in lBig. 2, are entirely con-' cealed by the bow as is the plate it]. This device permits the shoe to be cleaned without any danger of soiling the bows thereof. Tt is pointed out, and it will be obvious from Figs. 2 and 3 that when the shoe is on tit till

the foot the leather of the upper will be stretched over the instep and will be pre vented from contracting so that, under these circumstances, the studs it cannot move to ward each other and thus the plate or frame 10 cannot become detached from the shoe.

Having described my invention, what ll claim is The combination with a shoe, of out wardly projecting headed studs disposed upon the upper of the shoe at the instep thereof, and a bow support comprising a slightly curved metallic plate, said plate having hey-hole slots adjacent its ends, the

lldll lltlh narrow portions of the slots extending away testimony whereof I hereunto afix my from each other, said studs being adapted signature in the presence of two witnesses. to enter the wide portions of the slots when the leather of the upper is flexed and to en- LEROY JONES 5 gage in the "narrow portions of the slots Witnesses 4 when the leather of the upper is transversely D. C. LINDSAY,

stretched. N. ROBINSON. 

